How Can Multilingual Classrooms Succeed? An Analysis of Critical Incidents

The present study investigated critical incidents in multilingual classrooms from teachers’ perspectives to identify resources to make multilingual classrooms succeed. Our study is embedded in identity theories such as Mead’s symbolic interactionism, translanguaging, and global language theory. The incidents referred to the language of instruction; a discrepancy between age, developmental stage and grade; an overlap between language skills in...